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If you have been coming by the website the past few weeks, you know that Tennis Recruiting and Mizuno have been busy ranking recruiting classes. Today, we conclude our series with a look at the Division III women's programs.

Top 25 NCAA D-III Women's Recruiting Classes (through May 29)

TRN and Mizuno are excited to present the Top 25 NCAA Division III Women's Recruiting Classes for 2019. This list is based on commitments reported on or before May 25, 2019.

We have once again received assistance from a panel of NCAA Division III coaches in coming up with these rankings. Our panelists did not consider incoming transfer students in their decisions - and they also did not consider players that competed in college this past January.

The table above lists all recruits as of May 25, 2019. In addition to the Star Rating, we display the highest TRN and ITF junior rankings for each player over the 6-month period prior to the voting, and for international players we display the TRN ranking they would hold if eligible. We also display current WTA and UTR numbers from the date the voting began.

Wesleyan University is the toast of D-III Tennis. The Cardinals had a storybook run in 2019, posting a 19-2 record, winning its first-ever NESCAC Title, and then outlasting teams in nail-biting fashion to capture its first ever NCAA Championship. Freshman Venia Yeung capped off the season by advancing to the finals of the NCAA singles competition.

Wesleyan loses No. 1 singles player Victoria Yu to graduation, but the rest of the squad will be back. And next year, the Cardinals also have the No. 1 recruiting class in the country coming to town.

Give 7th-year Head Coach Mike Fried credit for recruiting a stellar recruiting class. Five Americans - all 4-Star prospects - will be arriving in Middletown from across the country. Three of them hail from the Pacifc Northwest - Katherine Fleischman (Medina, Wash,), Alexandra Gaeth (Seattle, Wash.), and Serim Jin (Portland, Oregon). They will be joined by Highland Park, Ill., native Caitlyn Goldberg and Caitlyn Ferrante of Yorktown Heights, N.Y. Over the past year, these athletes have collectively posted 33 combined wins over opponents rated 4 Stars or better. That is good enough to earn Wesleyan its first-ever No. 1 recruiting class after placing No. 2 in 2017 and No. 3 in both 2014 and 2018.

With a strong nucleus of players returning from the 2019 National Champion team and a bevy of top recruits, the arrow is certainly pointing up for the Wesleyan tennis program.

Top Five

Carnegie Mellon is another program that is posting its best-ever recruiting class - earning the No. 2 spot on our list. The Tartan class is headlined by Kritika Chhabra of India, who has posted several wins on the ITF junior circuit. She is joined by 4-Star senior Bin Zheng of Miami, Fla., as well as 3-Star recruits Madeline Fidel (Wheaton, Ill.), Lauren James (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.), and Megan Qiang (Beachwood, Ohio).

The University Athletic Association is another of our usual suspects, with 5 of its 8 institutions on our rank list - including three of our Top 6. Carnegie Mellon and Emory lead the way at No. 2 and 4, respectively, and they are followed by the Chicago Maroons (6), NYU Violets (12), and Wash U Bears (14). All five ranked UAA recruiting classes are among the Top 14.

Other conferences with multiple ranked classes are the NEWMAC and SCIAC with two ranked classes apiece.

Checking State

14 states are represented in our rankings, but Massachusetts stands out above all others. The Commonwealth features 5 programs in our rankings, including 3 in the Top 10. MIT (No. 3), Babson (5), and Tufts (7) all have Top 10 classes, and they are joined in the rankings by Williams (17) and Amherst (18).

Next up is New York with 4 ranked classes. Skidmore (11) and NYU (12) are Empire State schools with ranked classes - as are the RPI Redhawks (15) and Vassar Brewers (22).

Other states with multiple ranked classes are Maine (3 ranked classes), California (2), and Virginia (2).

That’s a Wrap

Over the past two weeks, TRN and Mizuno have put out six sets of recruiting class rankings. These rankings recognize hundreds of athletes from the Class of 2019 - and more than 100 college tennis programs from across the nation. Congratulations to all of these programs - and good luck to all of these seniors!

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